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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called his Turkmen counterpart Serdar Berdimuhamedov on Tuesday, congratulating him on the holiday of Eid al-Fitr and accepting congratulations in return.

Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi congratulated Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov on Oraza in a telephone conversation on Tuesday afternoon.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov proposed that the name of the country's new city be put up for public discussion. On Thursday, the head of state visited the administrative center of the Akhal region, which is under construction in the Geoktepe district, and got acquainted with the state of affairs at this largest construction site in the country and the progress of work at its key facilities.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov met on Tuesday with a member of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, who is visiting Ashgabat.

President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov sent a congratulatory telegram to Emmanuel Macron, who won the presidential election in France.

The holiday of the Turkmen Jockey was celebrated on Sunday with colorful events with exhibitions, performances, and competitions at the International Akhal-Teke Equestrian Complex.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and the head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, who arrived in Ashgabat for the Turkmen Horse Festival, held a bilateral meeting on Sunday, discussing the state and prospects for cooperation between Turkmenistan and this region of the Russian Federation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a congratulatory message to Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation between the two countries, according to the Kremlin website.

A video message from President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov will be broadcast at the 4th Asia-Pacific Water Summit on April 23. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov at a meeting with the Ambassador of Japan to Turkmenistan Hiroyuki Yamamoto, the press service of the Turkmen Foreign Ministry reports.

The fifth meeting of the heads of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs in the format "Central Asia - Russia" was held on Friday on video communication, according to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.